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Issuers need to be careful with bonds specifically marketed as green, said the head of Office of Municipal Securities.

Hiring qualified candidates for many positions within state and local governments has reached its worst period in 50 years, panelists at the 116th annual GFOA conference said on Sunday.

Republicans, who argue pandemic aid is partly to blame for inflation, have said the large aid packages came with too few guardrails.

The MSRB addressed its controversial request for information during the Government Finance Officers Association’s first live conference in two years.

The finance director of Aurora, Colorado, takes over as the association's president amid an uncertain post-pandemic landscape.

Bryant spent much time working to empower finance departments trying to pull their respective states, cities and localities out of the pitfalls caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board has filed a proposal to change its fee structure to account for prior year market results in a move that will help the board cover budget shortfalls.

Turner & Townsend aims to double its North American growth by 2025 as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is rolled out.

The SEC charged the town, former mayor Vern Breland, municipal adviser Twin Spires Financial and its owner Aaron Fletcher with misleading investors in connection with bond offerings in 2017 and 2018.

Even as the U.S. deal pipeline builds, public pension funds still need to look outside the country when they want to invest in infrastructure.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has come forward with a proposal that would expand the Names Rule to include any language associated with ESG related metrics.

The boutique consultancy firm, which focuses largely on transportation infrastructure, is growing "modestly" amid an uptick in federal funding.

A pipeline of projects is building as infrastructure dollars begin to flow to states.

The December 2020 supplemental aid package provided $9.8 billion directly to state departments of transportation, the only direct stimulus that DOTs received.

The latest Congressional effort challenging the state and local tax deduction cap would stop the IRS from restricting state legislation that offsets the policy.

Toll roads, registration fees and mileage-based fees are seen as the most sustainable options for replacing declining fuel tax revenue, but feasibility issues and political pressures complicate the way ahead.

The temporary injunction halts all work on Pennsylvania's $2.2 billion Major Bridges program.

The office of Rob Bonta filed its objection to the dismissal with a California appellate court in San Francisco May 19.

Some worry that governments will use new infrastructure funds for generic, shovel-ready projects, or even tax cuts, instead of collaborative plans that could transform regions.

Panelists at the NFMA 2022 annual conference said they aren’t holding out for advance refunding to be reinstated anytime soon.